Re: Heap memory usage question

2010-08-31 Thread Martin Samm
looks like regular (3-hourly) garbage collection (or threshold based). do you have any tools to drill in and see what object instances are on the heap? do you have any background processes running? On 31 August 2010 15:44, Pascal Robert wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Two weeks ago, we started usi

Re: Heap memory usage question

2010-08-31 Thread Mike Schrag
I wouldn't let it worry you too much -- you can tell it's obviously just garbage, since it collects back down to a stable state consistently. JMX requires object creation, you probably have background threads doing things, etc. This isn't THAT big of a deal. If you're really curious, you can tak

Heap memory usage question

2010-08-31 Thread Pascal Robert
Hello everyone, Two weeks ago, we started using Nagios to check and graph heap memory usage, and I see something strange : every 3 hours, heap usage goes from 30 MB down to 12 MB! I also saw that behavior when using JConsole in preparation for my WOWODC presentation. In fact, heap usage goes u